{"id":243399,"date":"2023-05-22T20:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243399"},"modified":"2023-05-22T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:08:31","slug":"ganga-praharis-initiative-guardians-of-the-ganga-task-force-keeps-a-watchful-eye-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ganga-praharis-initiative-guardians-of-the-ganga-task-force-keeps-a-watchful-eye-on-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganga Praharis Initiative: Guardians of the Ganga: task force keeps a watchful eye on the river"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cGuardians of the Ganga: task force keeps a watchful eye on the river\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>22nd May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 4,000 Ganga Praharis under the Namami Gange initiative have been keeping a check on littering and poaching in the Ganga River to make sure that its flora, fauna are intact. In return, the Wildlife Institute of India has helped them with livelihood training.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Ganga Praharis Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ganga Praharis are motivated and trained volunteers from among the local communities working for biodiversity conservation and cleanliness of the Ganga River with the ultimate objectives of restoring the Nirmal and Aviral Dhara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These volunteers have been constituted by the National Mission for Clean Ganga and the Wildlife Institute of India (NMCG-WII) under the <\/span><b>Namami Gange programme.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim of the initiative: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To establish a motivated cadre of \u201cGanga Prahari\u201d to support the local level institutions and monitor the quality of the natural resources of the river by mobilizing local communities at the grassroots level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Eligibility: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ganga Praharis have been identified through a series of site level consultative meetings and workshops held in villages located on the bank of the Ganga River and its select tributaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The primary criterion for identification is their passion and zeal to serve the river and to maintain its integrity in terms of cleanliness and biodiversity value.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 These \u2018Praharis\u2019 have to be above 18 years of age on the date of joining the project and preferably from the riverside villages. Children below 18 years of age are enrolled under the Bal Ganga Praharis programme.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGuardians of the Ganga: task force keeps a watchful eye on the river\u201d published in The Hindu on 22nd May 2023 What is the News? Over 4,000 Ganga Praharis under the Namami Gange initiative have been keeping a check on littering and poaching in the Ganga River&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ganga-praharis-initiative-guardians-of-the-ganga-task-force-keeps-a-watchful-eye-on-the-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ganga Praharis Initiative: Guardians of the Ganga: task force keeps a watchful eye on the river<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-243399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}